Everyday Modifications for Your VW Bay Window Van

Author: Rob Hawkins
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847979149
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 755

Book Description
Camper van enthusiast Rob Hawkins gives practical advice on modernizing and improving a VW Bay Window camper van. With over 700 colour photographs, the book provides step-by-step guides on how to fit a wide range of simple and more sophisicated upgrades to bring a Bay Window into the 21st century. With safety information throughout, the book covers: upgrading the interior - front bench seats, trimming panels, LED lighting, sound proofing and fitting a budget sound system; improving the ride quality - how to improve the suspension, change dampers, assess wheels and tyres and fit uprated anti-roll bars; better brakes - Bay Window brakes can be as good as a modern vehicle's, and this book shows you how to do it. Also covered is information on updating the electrics, engine preservation and upgrades including removing and rebuilding an engine. Fully illustrated with 728 colour photographs.

The VW Air-Cooled Engine

Author: Ken Cservenka
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785003763
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
The VW Air-Cooled Engine is a no-nonsense engine manual that any practical-minded person can understand, giving a highly illustrated step-by-step guide to dismantling and rebuilding a Type 1 engine. Most of the operations described in the book can be applied to the Type 4 unit used in 1700, 1800 and 2-litre Transporter models as well. Topics covered included workshop essentials; keeping the engine healthy; removing and stripping down the engine; examination of the engine components; reassembling the engine and ancillaries and full specifications of the various Type 1 and Type 4 engines. With over 300 colour images, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone involved in the repair and maintenance of these iconic engines.

Fitting a Camper Van Interior

Author: Rob Hawkins
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847976069
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 716

Book Description
Fitting a Camper Van Interior is a definitive guide to modifying or upgrading a van interior at home. This book offers guidance and advice on how to maximise the interior space, style and functionality of any camper van model. The book breaks down each task with step-by-step photography and instructions, from the initial design stages, right through to expanding the camper van with awnings and elevating roofs. With safety tips throughout, the book covers: considerations when purchasing your camper van (classic or new model?); how to assess an existing interior and determine what you need from your camper van; designing and planning a camper van interior - ideas and suggestions to help decide what you need to include inside a camper van; preparation - how to strip the inside of a camper van and prepare it for a new interior, including fitting insulation, sound proofing, rust protection, flooring and panelling; seats and sleeping - how to make your own seats and fit them, restore a rock and roll bed and fit a hammock; kitchen equipment - step-by-step instructions on making your own kitchen units and fitting equipment such as a fridge and stove; camper van electrics - hooking up at a campsite, running a leisure battery and other ideas for operating electrical equipment; expanding a camper van - how to make a canopy and fit an elevating roof. Illustrated throughout with 753 step-by-step photographs.

How to Restore Volkswagen (bay window) Bus

Author: Mark Paxton
Publisher: Veloce Publishing
ISBN: 9781845840938
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
YOUR step-by-step illustrated guide to body and interior restoration: Microbus, Camper, Kombi & Transporter; All August 1967 to October 1979 models; Does not cover rear bodywork of Pick-up models The only book currently available that comprehensively deals with the realities of restoring a VW Bay Window Bus. With over 1500 mainly color photos, it clearly guides the reader through body and chassis repairs, paint work, interior re-trimming and most of the common mechanical problems. The skills, techniques and even the tools needed to complete these tasks are explained in jargon free language to ensure that even those enthusiasts with no previous restoration experience will feel confident in sorting out their Bus. An indispensable and unique guide for lovers of these fast appreciating classics.

Volkswagen Bay Transporter Restoration Manual

Author: Fletcher Gillett
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN: 9780857332455
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Using the trusted Haynes practical approach, this all-colour manual follows the restoration of a 1971 Panel van and a 1979 Devon camper from beginning to end. Featuring hundreds of photographs and helpful diagrams where necessary, this is the only guide to restoring (or part-restoring) a "Bay" you will ever need.

Patina Volkswagens

Author: Mark Walker
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 178711824X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 475

Book Description
Patina Volkswagens is the first book to look at how and why Volkswagens with original paint and patina have become so popular. The book explores the many different facets of this trending hobby, from the cars themselves, to the owners and the global scene surrounding them.

VW Golf, GTI, Jetta and Cabrio, 1999 Thru 2002

Author: Jay Storer
Publisher: Haynes Manuals
ISBN: 9781563924750
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Models covered: VW Golf, GTI, Jetta and Cabrio 1999 through 2002.

The Image of the City

Author: Kevin Lynch
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262620017
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Transit Bus Service Line and Cleaning Functions

Author: John J. Schiavone
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309058575
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
Provides a variety of approaches to transit bus service line and cleaning functions so transit agencies can evaluate the effectiveness of their own operations.

Everyday Modifications for Your Triumph

Author: Iain Ayre
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785001760
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 377

Book Description
The books in the Everyday Modifications series are designed to guide classic car owners through the workshop skills needed to make their vehicles easier to use and enjoy. This book is concerned with improving the 4-cylinder Spitfire and Herald, and the 6-cylinder Vitesse and GT6, with engines ranging in size from 948cc to 1998cc. Classic car author and journalist Iain Ayre gives his hands-on advice on maintaining and modifying the Triumph Herald/Vitesse and Spitfire/GT6, covering both keeping them going and either subtly or dramatically improving them, with additional rescue options offered for Triumphs deemed economically terminal. The advice, based on decades of restoration and racing, covers improvements in power, handling, comfort and safety; period design faults isolated and remedied; electrics demystified, modernizing options discussed; six case studies; radical - as well as mild - modification options discussed. Superbly illustrated with over 250 colour photographs including rare period shots.